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Amber Naslund

Three stellar social media eBooks

by amy mengel on June 17, 2009

One reason it can be so intimidating for organizations to get started in social media is that there’s just so much information out there. Parsing through it all and trying to figure out what’s absolutely essential to understanding the basics can take a lot of time. Here are three eBooks that I’ve found extremely useful. They [...]

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Ragan Recap: Communications, Chicago-style

by amy mengel on May 10, 2009

I’m so exhausted after three days in Chicago that I can barely stay awake to write this post. I took in slightly more information than I did beer in the Windy City (but not by much) and want to share my impressions of the 2009 Ragan Corporate Communicators Conference and some of what I learned [...]

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Your day-by-day guide to social media

by amy mengel on April 29, 2009

Most of us aren’t lucky enough to have a personal assistant who maps out our schedule for us each week and tells us exactly where to go, when to be there and what to expect. With so much information on social media rip-roaring through the interwebz and changing constantly, it’s hard to keep up! But [...]

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Have you ever had an experience where someone says something that makes you immediately cringe, but you also know that they’re at least partly right? I had that reaction a week ago listening in on Social Mediasphere TV, Jim Turner’s weekly show on Ustream. His panelists included several social media rockstars, among them Amber Naslund. [...]

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Don’t let the “experts” intimidate you

by amy mengel on March 26, 2009

There’s been much discussion on blogs and Twitter recently about people proclaiming themselves social media experts or gurus or a host of other terms. Is there such a thing? Can anyone already claim to be an expert in such a nascent space? Will shoddy “experts” tarnish the reputations of those who really and truly are [...]

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